Thursday, January 03, 2013

Burma Adopts “Tea Party” Tactics

In November, 2012, President Obama became the first
US president to visit Burma since 1955. Human Rights activists felt this
goodwill gesture was premature, given the very recent government abuses
concerning the Muslim minority in addition to other things, but Obama
is anxious to make an Asian friend who might create a counter-balance
against China’s influence in the region. Burma has very recently
dissolved military rule of the country and is transitioning over to
“democracy.” Unfortunately, Burma has embraced some of the uglier
aspects of majority rule, namely the genocide of the minority Muslims.

The campaign against Myanmar Muslims by the Buddhists
is very different than the Israeli campaign against the Palestinians.
It is much more personal and gory, involving rape and mutilation of
corpses, even hanging of children in their own homes. The Israelis
prefer to just bulldoze a family under the rubble or fry them from the
sky rather than cut off their sexual parts. The Buddhists of Burma have
taken the word “monster” to an entirely new level. Nevertheless, it
comes as no big surprise that the Israelis have been providing weapons
to Burma to help ethnically cleanse the Muslim population from the
region.

The politics have taken on the familiar tone of the
Tea Party rhetoric against Mexican immigrants to the US. Burma’s
Muslims, who have been there for generations and centuries, all of a
sudden are being accused of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
The Buddhist government and mainstream majority want the Muslims to be
killed or expelled from the country. However, Bangladesh is only willing
to take on a limited number of refugees.

Muslims whose homes have been destroyed have been
rounded up into concentration camps, with very little aid. They cannot
leave the camps to buy groceries because Buddhist monks have declared a
boycott against selling to Muslims.

The BBC reports that Buddhist complaints against
Muslims have been primarily focused on concerns about population growth
and not any kind of group level of criminality. Like the Christian
Orthodox in Serbia complained about the Bosnians, the Buddhists feel
“threatened” by the feeling that they are surrounded by increasing
numbers of Muslims, who lead different lifestyles than themselves.

In truth, there is not that much difference between a
Buddhist and a Muslim. They both wake up pre-dawn to perform prayer and
prostrations; the only difference is that Buddhists pray towards a
statue while Muslims pray to a direction determined by a GPS. Both
cultures value compassion, chastity, self-denial and generosity.

As has been the case with India, it is reasonable to
assume that Zionist propagandists are working hand in hand with the
genocidalists to create a media war against the Muslims to facilitate
their demonization, marginalization, murder and expulsion from the
region.

The communal rioting has been invigorated by the
internet distribution of photos of corpses, with both enraged Buddhists
and Muslims claiming the dead as their own. However, there really are
not two sides to the “story.” Muslims are being forced from their homes
by the hundreds of thousands and Burma’s government is participating.

It is more than possible that Obama’s interest in
Burma friendliness has to do with replacing the world heroin supply in
the event of a Taliban victory in Afghanistan.

“Indeed the pending departure of the US from
Afghanistan and the return of the Indigenous Taliban to power will mean a
repeat of the Taliban destruction of the Afghan opium industry in
2000-2001 and the consequent need for Neocon America to boost opium
production in SE Asia for profit and continued, evil, opiate-based
destabilization of Iran, Russia, Central Asia, African America, Latin
America and China,” writes Gideon Polya.

Myanmar Muslims have been targeted for ethnic
cleansing based on the assumption that the Muslims might join with a
global political Islamist movement and seek foreign aid in order to get
their issues addressed. Until this point, the Myanmar Muslims have not
engaged themselves in political alliances or violence. However, the
attacks on their population have created an unavoidable need for foreign
aid and interference.

American Muslims are in a primary position to lend a
voice to this awful situation. Obama has stated that he wants Burma to
be a friend of the US, and that he is trusting Burma to go forward with
reforms on human rights issues. Unfortunately, the US is taking the
usual “blame both sides” approach to genocide, thereby taking zero
responsibility for the outcome. Nevertheless, US Muslims are now in a
position to act as American ambassadors to promote a win-win solution in
the region, if they choose to do so.

Since nobody actually has a plan, whoever comes up
with one and seeks to implement it will be at an advantage. Basically,
Muslims in Burma are asking to be treated as human equals and to be
granted citizenship in Burma, a right they had previously enjoyed. The
situation is similar in Greater Israel, where many Palestinians live
without any citizenship.

Americans are in a unique and wonderful position at
this time in history, to apply the lessons learned from our civil rights
movement in order to solve political problems in the world. The basic
solution for most communal violence situations remains that the
oppressed group should be given equal rights and citizenship, the right
to vote, and they should be integrated in society.

There really is no other way. Breaking up the world
into smaller and smaller pieces of land where the people there agree
with each other or share DNA just is not reasonable nowadays.